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For fans of real estate shows, there’s nothing more exciting than realizing this week’s episode takes place in your town. You know that intersection! And that coffee shop! And hey, isn’t that house, like, three streets away from yours?
The beauty of WETA’s new real estate show,
If You Lived Here, is that every single episode takes place in the DC area. The first season premieres February 15 and follows WETA producers Christine Louise and John Begeny as they tour a series of neighborhoods throughout the Washington region.
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Today we talk with Heather Lende about her new book Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics.
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines, Alaska, cost less than $1,000, she won! But tiny, breathtakingly beautiful Haines a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane isn’t the sleepy town that it appears to be: from a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears from rifling through garbage on Main Street to the recall campaign that targeted three assembly members, including Lende, we witness the nitty-gritty of passing legislation, the lofty ideals of our republic, and how the polarizing national politics of our era play out in one small town.